Die Götter müssen verrückt sein

Originaltitel: The Gods Must Be Crazy

1980
PG
1 Std. 49 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

61.783

IHRE BEWERTUNG

A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.

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Desert Adventure Satire Adventure Comedy

"Ein afrikanischer Stamm lebt in Frieden und Abgeschiedenheit von der Welt. Eines Tages wird über ihrem Gebiet eine leere Cola-Flasche abgeworfen. Plötzlich sind Neid und Missgunst an der Ta... Alles lesen"Ein afrikanischer Stamm lebt in Frieden und Abgeschiedenheit von der Welt. Eines Tages wird über ihrem Gebiet eine leere Cola-Flasche abgeworfen. Plötzlich sind Neid und Missgunst an der Tagesordnung. Buschmann Xi beschließt, das ""Geschenk der Götter"" wieder zurückzubringen.""Ein afrikanischer Stamm lebt in Frieden und Abgeschiedenheit von der Welt. Eines Tages wird über ihrem Gebiet eine leere Cola-Flasche abgeworfen. Plötzlich sind Neid und Missgunst an der Tagesordnung. Buschmann Xi beschließt, das ""Geschenk der Götter"" wieder zurückzubringen."

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

61.783

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 2 Gewinne & 3 Nominierungen insgesamt

Card 2
(as Joe Seakatsi)

Brian O'Shaughnessy

Mr. Thompson

Ken Gampu

President

Paddy O'Byrne

Narrator
(Synchronisation)

Graham Armitage

The Reverend
(Synchronisation)
(Nicht genannt)

Vera Blacker

Mrs. Thompson
(Nicht genannt)

Pip Freedman

Mpudi
(Synchronisation)
(Nicht genannt)

Katinka Heyns

Young woman with noise in her head
(Nicht genannt)

Jamie Uys

The Reverend
(Nicht genannt)

Janet Wells

Kate Thompson
(Synchronisation)
(Nicht genannt)

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CrawlingEye

A happy movie

This movie must have cost $1.98 to make. There are no special effects to speak of. Everybody in this movie is an unknown. So why do I LOVE this movie? All I can say is the whole time I was watching this, I had a smile on my face. The concept was then and even now, unique. You connect right away with the hero, and root him on to the end. I will not tell you what the film is about, because You must watch it with no preconceptions or political bias. Just go rent the tape or download it, and you will watch a really special movie.

9Swambi

Masterpiece

A unique film with a brilliant combination of slapstick, subtle humour, wonderful music, brilliant wildlife and scenic shots, all beautifully woven into a piece in an almost "road-style" movie around the adventures of a bushman.

Like any story, there are some aspects which are slightly unbelievable if you stop to think - but the skill of the film is that it is sufficiently convincing to suspend such unbelief whilst you watch.

The message of the film is brilliantly presented, subtly challenging the belief that white civilization has all the answers, gently poking fun at many of our western assumptions (no idea why anyone thinks it's racist - it may be the opposite)!

Some of the high points for me personally were the scenery, the wildlife, and the African huts, children and music. Having lived in Africa for 3 years it was absolutely true to life, and brought back fond memories. This is a classic that will bear watching time and time again, and so different from the run of the mill films generally churned out.

A classic - 9/10.

8dzagar

Such a likable movie...

Don't be put off by the talk of poor production values, bad dubbing, goofy Benny Hill-esque slapstick, and questionable acting. Once you get a look at the enormous smile on Xi's face, you'll forget all of that. This is one of the most gentle, pleasant, and likable movies I've seen in a long time (all of that in a good way).

I'd always heard about it, but somehow managed to miss it over the years. Finally saw it this weekend, and it's a real gem.

For you DVD viewers, there's a documentary with interview footage of Xi. The only problem--no subtitles! Some bozo obviously blew it on the transfer, making it possibly the most frustrating doc ever produced...Be warned!

8medrjel

A Masterpiece

What starts out as a simple tale of the bush turns into a wild adventure with a coke bottle, revolutionaries, a dis-enchanted office worker turned teacher, and a scientist who studies animal dung with no skills around women. Add a smart-tongued mechanic and a 4x4 called the antichrist, and you have one of the funniest movies ever to come out of South Africa. You laugh as much at the ludicrous nature of some of the situations as much as what they want you to laugh at. You may never look at Africa the same again.

RT Firefly

Proves Hollywood is crazy

A lovely little simple film with a shoestring budget. This film proves Hollywood is crazy for spending so much money when all it needs to do is hire one clever person like (writer/director) Jamie Uys. This film is everything that Hollywood isn't. Simple, silly, fun, genuine, not slick, NOT contrived, real...etc... This movie also proves people don't care about big name actors and exploding cars (though if you are a bushman this has both those things). What they want is a good story told in a clever manner.

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The film was the world's biggest non-US box office hit during its release.

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At the end, when Andrew is covered in flour, a lipstick kiss appears on his cheek before Kate kisses him.

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Narrator: Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city. And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy... 10:30 says you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again... And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances.
Narrator: [Kate looks for a place to have her lunch] My I share a table?
Kate Thompson: No wonder some people go off the rails a bit...
Young woman with noise in her head: Does the noise in my head bother you?
Young woman with noise in her head: No...
Kate Thompson: [Later, Kate finds Pete] Pete, Have you still got that story about the teacher shortage in Botswana?
Pete: Yeah, you gonna use it?
Kate Thompson: No. Maybe they can use me.
Narrator: But in the Kalahari, it's always Tuesday, or Thursday if you like, or Sunday. No clocks or calendars tell you to do this or that.